HILTON VALENTINE All In Your Head 1969 ex-ANIMALS FADING YELLOW PSYCH LP LISTEN
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HILTON VALENTINE "ALL IN YOUR HEAD" LP
ORIGINAL 1969 LP ON THE US CAPITOL LABEL, STEREO ST-330
COVER IN EXCELLENT shape, cutout hole, light wear on front
VINYL plays VG+ to VG++
They tell me Hilton was in the Animals, but you wouldn't know it by anything on here, his one lone solo album, ALL IN YOUR HEAD, from 1969. They also tell me he's a big fan of skiffle music, but again, you'd never know it. ALL IN YOUR HEAD is a brilliant collection of gentle, melodic and often downright pretty sunshine pop psych tunes, sorta like the Left Banke if they'd been a little folkier and a little more British. "Everything Returns To Me" is, dare I say, prettier than anything Eric Burdon ever sang (and that includes "Spill The Wine"), with some baroque harpsichord and strings as embellishment. The twinkling "Listen" belongs on a future FADING YELLOW compilation (gentle melodic pop gems, for those who aren't FY savvy yet). And the bouncy British popsike masterpiece "Is There Anything But Love" should have been a HUGE hit in the Summer of '69, and sounds like what Keith West's Tomorrow if they'd been gunning for the UK charts. Of course, none of that mattered, because ALL IN YOUR HEAD sold worse than Hugh Grant films at a gun show, and consequently it's a VERY hard album to find these days. In fact, you won't find another one on this site right now! Ultimately, though, its poor sales led to an even harsher fate - Hilton went back to skiffle.
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